Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-06-02
BALD AND OTHERWISE.
How Number OF Prominent New Yorkcrs
Wear Their Hair and Boards.

now NUMBER OF Prominent New YorIkers
Wear Their Hair and Boards.
Rufus Blodgett, the new Senator
from New Jersey, who is more than
half New Yorker, is as bald and shiny
on top Of his head as any china door
knob. You might imagine you wero
looking down upon q row Of babies
heads were you to see sitting in row
at theater Messrs. Bob Ingersoll,
Henry George, Henry Clews, the bank.
er; Dion Boucicault Speaker Hustled,
OF the New York Assembly; Joseph
Howard. Jr., and August Belmont
Hon. Levi p. Morton, the banker and
ex-Minister to France. avoids this dread
mistake by covering his head with the
handiwork Of man. Goatces have al
most entirely disappeared from mems
faces. but Joe Howard still clings to his;
in fact, tho one he wears is exactly tho
one he first grew when no began re-.
porting under Henry ]. Raymond in
the good old days before the war. No
ruthless razor has ever touched that
demi-bcard. Buffalo Bill and Chester
5. Lord. the managing editor of the
Sa', also wear gostees. John Swim.
ton always has the appearance of hav.
Ing carefully musscd his thin white
hair before he stepped out of doors in
the morning. When he receives or
pays o visit he generally tides himself
by giving an extra disturbance to his
hair by running his fingers through il.
Parkc Goodwin, Jay Gould and Stephen
V. White allow their hair to grow all
over their faces as 1t will, but Messrs.
Gould and White keep theirs trimmed
close and neatly. General Shaler, the
father of the fire departments of Chi
cago and New York, wears his hair
brushed straight up above his forehead
like q wall on the edge of cliff.
and George Ehret, the greatest of
the eighty brewers who keep New
York's growler filled, combs his locks
straight back without parting, like
the little girls, except that hc wears
no back comb. Henry Bergh, the
champion of all dumb creatures, has nm
elaborate and original method of culti-
waiting his head covering. He plasters
1t down his forehead and thon brings
the ends around over and in front OF
his ears. General Roger A. Pryor's
style of wearing his hair suggests tho
old rustic method Of putting bowl
over tho head and cutting the back
locks even with the edge Of the vessel.
His straight black hair falls in sheer
descent to his coat-collar and then Is
suddenly chopped of. Judge Barrett
has suggestion of puff over his
forehead, and Whitelaw Reid used to
wear his hair long and full behind, but
now the handsome editor wears 1T
trimmed shortbchind like a youths. No
man In tho city pays more attention to
his hair than General Daniel E Sickles.
It is always scrupulously we'll bar
bercd. In the State Department at
Washington there is an album that was
intended for some Oriental potentatc,
but was never sent Il contains tho
portraits Of all the Union Generals as
they were at the opening of the war:
gaunt, black-hairod Mcclellan; q
thin, black-hcaded boyish Hancock; a
Grant you would not know at all, and
a very useful Sherman. But the por.
trait Of General Dan Sickles in that
book is portrait Of General Sickles Of
to-day, minus the crutches with which
he is forever accompanied. He has
barbar call upon him every morning.
This is often done here in town, and
costs thirty cents day. General
Chester A. Arthur used to indulge in
the luxury and so did A. Oakley Hall.
Grover Cleveland. by the way, has
been shaved at home for about four
years. The handsomest head Of hair
in town is that of Edward Stokes, Of
the Hoffman House. IN Y Mail and
Cypress.